Stop Asking Whether Students Can Use AI

As generative AI has become embedded in the tools students use to search, write, create, translate, organize, and receive feedback, the boundary between "using AI" and "not using AI" has become increasingly difficult to define. More importantly, treating AI use as a binary choice does little to help students understand the different roles AI can appropriately play in learning.

Microsoft Expands AI Security Platform to Address Agentic AI Security Risks

Microsoft is expanding the scope of its AI-powered Project Perception security platform to address the growing concern that AI agents may have access to sensitive information and systems, yet don't always behave as expected.

When Should AI Be Used in the Classroom? Learning Science Offers a Guide

District and state policies run the gamut from embracing to banning AI. This raises a key question: When does AI accelerate student learning and when does it interfere?

OpenAI Getting Rid of Custom GPTs and Moving to Plugin Architecture

OpenAI has announced it will retire Custom GPTs and move the specialized workflows built around them to a new plugin architecture spanning ChatGPT and its Codex coding agent.

Report: Cyber Attacks Increasingly Exploit Trusted Workplace Tools

In its latest threat intelligence report, Ontinue found that attackers are increasingly using trusted workplace tools to trick users into giving them access to enterprise networks.

Researchers Find AI Is Accelerating Vulnerability Discovery

AI-powered vulnerability research is contributing to a major increase in security updates, raising concerns that IT teams could fall behind as patching demands grow, according to cybersecurity company ThreatDown.

Flashpoint Receives Patent for Ransomware Risk Model, Tying Vulnerabilites to Likelihood of Attack

Cybersecurity company Flashpoint announced it has received U.S. Patent No. 12,705,360 for its Ransomware Risk model, a methodology designed to help security teams determine which newly disclosed vulnerabilities more closely resemble those historically used in ransomware attacks.

Perkins V Isn't Preparing Students for an AI-Driven Workforce

Today's middle school students' future careers will be transformed by artificial intelligence, automation, robotics, advanced manufacturing, biotechnology, cybersecurity, and technologies that may not yet exist. Our career education policies need to prepare them for that reality.

When Cyber Attacks Disrupt Learning, Recovery Matters More than Ever

As schools become more dependent on digital platforms for instruction, grading, student services, and family communication, resilience depends not only on preventing attacks, but on how quickly leaders can restore trusted data, recover essential services, and keep disruptions from cascading across the school community.

AI Ambitions Are Running Into a Network Infrastructure Trust Problem

Network-provider trust concerns are impacting enterprise AI plans, with AI and data-driven projects the most affected initiatives among respondents reporting disruption, according to a report from telecommunications provider Arelion.

Ransomware Attacks Move Beyond Enterprise Systems to Theaten Employees' Families

Attackers are exploiting enterprises' own artificial intelligence systems and extending pressure beyond internal networks to employees and their families, according to a new Semperis survey of organizations that suffered disruptive ransomware attacks.

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